You guys are one of my favorite reasons for creating favstar.
Removing stars
If you star tweets that are funny (like most of my users do) then there’s no point in removing stars*. It doesn’t help anyone - and makes it impossible for favstar to collect them if it hasn’t already.
If stars you ‘know’ should be there haven’t appeared next to a tweet on favstar.fm, first check on twitter.com that the tweet hasn’t been deleted from twitter**, and then check the star hasn’t been removed from twitter.com. If you think there’s a bug with missing stars, do let me know and I might investigate - but please check these two things first.
If you know someone that removes stars thinking it will get more counted, or somehow benefit them in some other way, please let them know it’s not the case.
I invite you to reblog or tweet a link to this if you’re a regular favstar user.
* On the other hand, if you star tweets for bookmark purposes only, and you’re done with the bookmark - it makes sense to remove the star if you don’t care about it showing on favstar.
** Some users delete tweets if they discover a typo, if they decide they don’t like it, if they want their tweet history to be clean of replies, or for a myriad of other reasons. Perhaps I should also warn that favstar might get confused about you if you delete 50+ tweets at a time. Deleting 1 or 2 tweets at a time is fine.
Nice touch. SMS doesn’t work but nice touch.
Keep an eye on this little bit of UI. It’s going to get interesting.
Email from a fan
Part of an email from a donator tonight:
Twitter has been a lot more fun for me since favstar came along :) I have started following - and started being followed by - some great folks because of you.
Made. My. Night.
Twitter just made my day. No warning this was coming, it’s just appeared. Thank you, whoever at twitter pushed the button to make this happen.
Exhibit 1 in “Why I’ll always prefer favrd to favstar.”
That registration process means I’ll never have to see the Jonas Brothers on the leaderboard.
I didn’t build favstar.fm to bring the @jonasbrothers to people’s attention either. I’m making a separate celeb section on the pages, starting yesterday. Work in progress. Example: http://favstar.fm/top-tweeters
Changing your avatar
See?
Read the comments - changing your avatar can result in problems on Favrd. Also changing your avatar confuses the old people like me.
PS: On your way out can you tell that kid to get off my lawn?
I changed the title of the post I reblogged - Click through to piscesinpurple to see the original if interested.
There’s actually a couple of bugs/problems with twitter and their handling of changing avatars that causes problems for third party websites. You see broken avatar’s all over favstar.fm. I’ve filed change requests with twitter, but I don’t see this being fixed any time soon.
The first problem is that they delete the old avatar image pretty quickly, if not immediately. So if a 3rd party site has the address of the old avatar image in it’s cache/database, the avatar won’t show properly.
The second problem which makes the first even worse is that Twitter doesn’t update the avatar url completely in it’s own cache until the user tweets again. This means it’s still feeding the old avatar url (which is now broken) out to 3rd party sites.
My advice: If you’re going to change your avatar, make a tweet again immediately afterwards to force twitter to update it’s cache.
On slowness
..Snip..
Peace.
15 hours ago is forever in the Twitter world.
What I refer to as slowness is this:
I posted http://twitter.com/tj/statuses/3601177888 an hour and 15 minutes ago.
It has 12 stars on Favrd: http://favrd.textism.com/tweet/3601177888 (and it was previously 9, so Favrd’s been past twice).
It doesn’t even appear on Favstar.
..Snip..
It will. Forever. ;-)
On slowness
If I am right (and I may be wrong), Favstar seems an untenable solution. They are going to find more and more people to check, but it’s going to take longer and longer to make it through the entire cycle. (I assume this is why Favstar tends to find more stars, but be slower, than Favrd.)
Okay, so there is one more point I want to call @tj out on. Slowness.
I’ll let two screenshots speak for themselves. They’ve both been taken right now, The favrd one snapped after the favstar one.
Favrd:
Favstar:
The point I’m trying to make here is that favstar isn’t always slower. 3 weeks ago it was. It’s improved, and will continue to do so.
Peace.
